I'm 61 years old. My mother was a type of feminist that was very prevalent among boomer mothers. These mothers mostly didn't embrace the freedom of dumping the husband. Instead, they'd encourage their daughters to believe "you want to be a career girl with your own apartment," push their girls into higher education, and denigrate any of the daughter's impulses to want to do the natural thing and marry young and produce children. Many girls I knew in school were getting the same push from their mothers to put school first, and worry about boys later. Or worse, they'd tell us you won't find a boyfriend/husband if you're looking for one.
Compare that to my mom's childhood, where the school and the community would do all they could to encourage the teens to mingle and become accustomed to paring up with the opposite sex - dances, proms, mixers, where one had to bring a date of the opposite sex. Subsequently, it's gotten even worse, with the norm now being proms full of kids going stag or in a group. No wonder there are young people today who think that polyamory is a viable family structure.
My moms' fav show, of course. I'd look at her friend Rhoda (who moved to Minneapolis because she believed the cold weather would act as a preservative and slow her acquisition of the signs of aging) and think, "Nah, I want a nice husband and family."
I'm 61 years old. My mother was a type of feminist that was very prevalent among boomer mothers. These mothers mostly didn't embrace the freedom of dumping the husband. Instead, they'd encourage their daughters to believe "you want to be a career girl with your own apartment," push their girls into higher education, and denigrate any of the daughter's impulses to want to do the natural thing and marry young and produce children. Many girls I knew in school were getting the same push from their mothers to put school first, and worry about boys later. Or worse, they'd tell us you won't find a boyfriend/husband if you're looking for one.
Compare that to my mom's childhood, where the school and the community would do all they could to encourage the teens to mingle and become accustomed to paring up with the opposite sex - dances, proms, mixers, where one had to bring a date of the opposite sex. Subsequently, it's gotten even worse, with the norm now being proms full of kids going stag or in a group. No wonder there are young people today who think that polyamory is a viable family structure.
My moms' fav show, of course. I'd look at her friend Rhoda (who moved to Minneapolis because she believed the cold weather would act as a preservative and slow her acquisition of the signs of aging) and think, "Nah, I want a nice husband and family."